Litter-carrier.



R. P. MORRlS.

LITTER CARRIER. APPLICATION FILED AUG-11. 1917.

13663300. Patented May 14, 1918.

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ROBERT P. MORRIS, 0F WATERLOO, IOWA.

LITTER-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14;, 1918.

Application filed August 11, 1917. Serial No. 185,775.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that 1, ROBERT P. MORRIS, a

citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Litter-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in litter carriers, and the object of my improvement is to provide mechanism for releasably securing a tiltable vesselsupported on a carriage, movable along an elevated track, which may be operable with equal facility when moving in either direction by engagement with a tripping stop mounted on said track.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is an elevation of a tiltable carrier mounted on an overhead track, and including my improved releasable fastening means, parts thereof being shown in section; Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the receptacle of said device, with parts of the supports and fastening means shown in section, and Fig. i is an end elevation of the carriage and the upper part of one of the hangers, the latter shown in section, and broken away.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views. 7

In Fig. 1 is shown a pair of circumferentially grooved carrying wheels 15 mounted upon an elevated cable 16 upon which is fixed a depending tripping stop 17 Each wheel 15 is rotatable upon a stud. 14 projecting from the upper part of the hanger 13. The lower part of each hanger is bent horizontally and provided with a vertical orifice located vertically below the center of said wheel, and said bent-over part has a depending hollow integral part 6 made convex outwardly to be received within an annular hollow or bearing in the upper end of a sleeve 3 which is fixed upon the upper end of a tubular vertical frame part 4. Each sleeve 3 has clamping parts within which are fixedly mounted a horizontal tubular frame 4. Below the part 2 and positioned below the lower portions of the vertical frame parts 4 is a tiltable receptacle 1, open at the top, and having at its ends extending outwardly in alinement and below i@ center of gravity, pivot studs 26 which pass through bearing orifices in the. lower ends of the vertical frame parts 4.

Referring now to Figs. 2 and 3, the numeral 23 denotes a body fixed medially upon one end of the receptacle 1 and having an integral bracketed flange 22 sloping both ways and medially notched at 21 to detachably receive a headed pin 20 which is contained in and vertically movable within a hollow boxing 25 projected from a sleeve 18, the latter being vertically slidable upon,

one of the standards or frame parts 4. Said standard d has slots in opposite sides, and a pintle 19 extends through said slots with its ends fixed in said sleeve.

The numeral 5 denotes a plunger-rod whose lower end is pivotally mounted on the pintle 19, said rod extending upwardly through the tubular standard 4: and through the orifice in the bent over lower end of the hanger 13.

The numeral 12 denotes a pintle mounted in a bearing in the hanger 13, said pintle carrying on one end immediately under the wheel 15 and in line with said rod 5, a swinging or rock-body 10 having a convex upper end 11 and a forked lower end 9. The numeral 7 denotes a link having its upper end pivotally connected to a pintle connecting the members of said fork 9 and having its lower end hooked and orificed to receive and hold the headed upper end of the plunger-rod 5.

When said litter-carrier is moved in either direction along said elevated track 16, the reversely sloping top 11 of the rock body 10 will engage one or the other ends of the tripping-stop 17, the convex lower edge of the latter engaging the convex top of the rock-body to push it over, rocking the rockbody, lifting the plunger-rod 5, which in turn, lifts the sleeve 18 and withdraws the headed pin 20 from the notch 21 in the flange 22, and since the receptacle 1 is pivotally mounted below its center of gravity, said receptacle will tilt and deliver its contents.

Since the rock-body 10 is vertically alined with both the plunger-rod 5 and the center of the wheel 15, it will operate equally well when shifted in either direction by engage ment with either end of the tripping stop 17, and when the receptacle 1 is returned to its first position, gravity will cause the movable parts of the mechanism to return to their first positions, thereby reengaging the headed pin '20 with he notch in the cutel1- Han e I aving described my inventicii', what I (:lzlilll as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

Inv CQIllblHgltlQll, a, supporting ire-ck, a tripping step fixed tlieieoii, zi carriage movable along said track, a hanger depending" from said carriage, a vessel tiltably supported on said hanger, eiigaging meaileoxi' said vessel, 21 plungeried niovzibly nioiinted on said hanger, eiigaging-meens movably .of July; 1917.

connected to said plunger-rod and adapted to releasably, engage said engaging-means 011' said vessel, a'linkfinounted on said plungerrod for horizontal rotation, and a rockbody pivotally connected to said link and adepted fio be rocked in either of oppesite directions vertically to disengagetheengag iiig mezins 011' said plunger-rod from the engagingmeans on said vessel. 7

Signed at l/Vateileo, Iowa; thisflfith day eeBIERT Pl MURRISL Geyies of this peieiiic may be ebiained for fiire eeiine eaeii. by aiidiessimg' the Gomn'iisioiie'r' of Eateiits, Washington, 13." 

